Support of R600 and R700 chips (Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series) was dropped at fglrx-driver 1:12-6~beta-1.(changelog). The latter are helped with the now separate package fglrx-legacy-driver.Unsupported chips are supported by the "radeon" open source driver, which provides 3D acceleration via DRI.

Support of R600 and R700 chips (Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series) was dropped at fglrx-driver 1:12-6~beta-1.(changelog). The latter are helped with the now separate package fglrx-legacy-driver.Unsupported chips are supported by the "radeon" open source driver, which provides 3D acceleration via DRI.

Happened to see this thread while googling for other stuff, so I'm gonna complain

I decided to upgrade at work (most of the updates were downloaded from previous attempts to do so) and as expected some stuff started to break as I was working, but I was able to cope by using Thunar in place of Nautilus (dunno why I have it installed...) and mate-terminal in place of gnome-terminal. I started it at 2PM and by 5PM it wasn't done so I had to leave it at work (or risk it dying on the way home because of a bad battery). When I got back to it the next day, it was sitting there waiting for me to confirm whether to replace or keep a configuration file, which happened a few times for a couple hours... Then it failed to setup some php thing (my [L]AMP setup is still working) and quit *facepalm*

I rebooted to see [if anything/what] was broken:

1. Nautilus no longer has scroll arrows, random background bits are white.2. Gedit doesn't make the line number column grey anymore, seems to be a theming problem.3. Random Cinnamon applets have a space to the side of them (Panel-Bottom:{Menu:Right, Calendar:Right}, Panel-Top:{Battery:Left}).4. Sound problem was exaggerated (Skype made a garbled noise when I logged in to Cinnamon), dunno who's fault it is (ALSA, Pulseaudio, etc?)

If no sound is already playing, new sound will be garbled for a second like a radio. For example streaming with VLC will result in garbling when the song changes or you have to reconnect. Previewing Pidgin message sound also gets garbled, but if I preview it while playing music, it sounds fine.Small crackles sometimes (clipping?), as if my headphones are bad, which they aren't, playing music on my phone sounds fine.

5. [FIX] qBittorrent finally runs, instead of splashing and crashing... yippee? >.>6. I can't see any problem with the font...

sobrus wrote:(Yada yada...)And apt-get is indeed much slower than opensuse zypper - it took about about 20 minutes to update my system even on SSD.I presume all distributions using apt share this "problem".

Funny you should say that, right after I upgraded from UP4 to UP5, I decided to upgrade my other computer's openSUSE partition from 12.1 to 12.2. I switched the repository addresses over and executed "zypper dup". It asked me to agree to some licenses (gonna have to switch $PAGER from "more" to "less", pressing enter when it asks to agree causes it to cancel), then it downloaded and installed the new packages, which took an hour or two.

When I rebooted, it was still using Grub1, I got a new menuentry for Grub2 that didn't work, but the menuentries I had before still worked. When I chose to boot openSUSE, it displayed a nice complex animation using Plymouth (much better than the gecko's eye looking back and forth). The desktop manager (login screen) was changed from the one I had been using before. About the only thing I noticed after using it for awhile was that the close button on windows were red and some programs got updated (hoorah Gimp 2.8! though 12.1 had it through OBS). So the only things to fix are replacing Grub1 with Grub2 and getting my old desktop manager back, both of which are only seen for a little while and work perfectly fine as they currently are. I'll probably do a fresh install of 12.2 from a LiveCD, it got kinda messy from installing 12.1 with Gnome3 (only as a base for Cinnamon *shudders*), trying to use Cinnamon (worked until I tried changing window themes), then switching to KDE (which I found is AWESOME!).

I had already decided awhile back that I wanted to replace LMDE with openSUSE on my laptop because I liked what it had to offer (delta RPMs, YaST, and OBS for example), but there wasn't anything I disliked about LMDE (and openSUSE 12.2 was coming out soon)... and then this happened. So openSUSE is getting installed this weekend, kinda sucks that I'm leaving LMDE on a sour note.

(Again, holy *, I wrote all that? Yet I had trouble writing anything for English class in high school?)

chinoto wrote:4. Sound problem was exaggerated (Skype made a garbled noise when I logged in to Cinnamon), dunno who's fault it is (ALSA, Pulseaudio, etc?)[list]If no sound is already playing, new sound will be garbled for a second like a radio. For example streaming with VLC will result in garbling when the song changes or you have to reconnect. Previewing Pidgin message sound also gets garbled, but if I preview it while playing music, it sounds fine.Small crackles sometimes (clipping?), as if my headphones are bad, which they aren't, playing music on my phone sounds fine.

Are you using snd_hda_intel ? With power management enabled? (does it happen on battery but not on AC)

# cat /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save

If the above is not 0 (disabled), like 1 or 2, try to set it to higher number. this is the auto-power-save timeout, in seconds:# echo 10 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save

If that doesn't help, check if reset controller in power save mode is disable:# cat /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save_controller

All went fine, except GRUB. But I think it was my fault, not installing it in all the partitions. I did a boot-repair live CD and problem solved.Next issue: sound mute in every startup. sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio, problem solved.I have some minor problems with the theme, but selecting him another time and restarting they dissapeared.

The last: i choose to keep the previous SAMBA configuration file, but, I have the same problem from here, another time! viewtopic.php?f=195&t=102384No idea where to start.

I'm still plagued with Total Freezes / Lockups. Nothing at all in syslog to point to what went wrong before the system froze, every time.

Prelude:I was also having the same problem described in bug #1032980 ; LMDE MATE/Cinnamon 2012/04 installation always freezes at some random point of copying files. Similar hardware too here, i5-3210m (intel hd 4000) ivy bridge, Radeon HD 7670 -- Dell Inspiron 15R 5520. But I somehow eventually got it to install, but once I did, the display x-offsetting was wrong -- screen was shifted to the right (and wrapped around left) of the LCD, from boot (right after console switches to high res). The only thing that would mitigate that was disabling i915 modeset, which wasn't acceptable as I needed KMS to turn the radeon off via vgaswitcherro switch in debugfs (from /etc/rc.local). So for a while, I used liquorix kernel 3.4, and then switched back to the new kernel from incoming: 3.2.0-3-amd64 (3.2+45), and now freezing.

General info:

Only using LMDE incoming repos. Only foreign packages are from dell factory installed ubuntu for dell bcm43142 wlan/bluetooth card driver, and dell_laptop module -- both dkms installed. Freezes occur whether or not btusb module is loaded (when I don't often use). only using the "wl" module (for wifi).

Description of the problem:Freezes can happen every other day, after several days, or twice or three times in a row, like this morning. Without any prior warning or signs. Last 3 times this morning while using firefox,first time when opening an image link (the image rendered half way and laptop froze). The second two times while hovering over left-side of browser for tree-style-tab (ff-extension) auto-hidden vertical tab list to show (w/ transparency). Only a terminal with 2-3 tabs and pluma open, otherwise. And only additional (mate) applets used are CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 1.4.0 & MATE Sensors Applet 1.2.0.

The one thing I've been doing more lately, is:echo "min_power" | tee /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy

It seems to immediately quite down the laptop's fan, which is always otherwise running, regardless of AC/BAT status.

Is there anyway to make the kernel spit out anything to anywhere (local disk, remote syslogger, a network-connected vt) before freezing?Any pointers to how to debug this? I feel I have absolutely nothing I can point my finger at with certainty to warrant filing a bug report.

Apologies if this shouldn't be posted here. Please let me know if I should rather start a new thread.

I'd previously replied in this thread having no issues testing up5 on my system that had been running up4 since up4s release -all was well. I've just done a fresh install of LMDE Xfce UP4, then switched sources to UP5, then updated Xfce to 4.10 (by temporarily switching switching sources to Experimental). Again: no issues. New inxi

UP5 is released, but ISO are not available for download yet.I've updated to UP5 and it works very good.

But it seems like I've just discovered another important UP5 flaw ***There is no compiz in UP5***(im sorry for large fonts, im just making sure Clem will not miss it!)Compiz will work as long as you've updated from UP4 but for new installations it will be unavailable

Also, I noticed that some packages are not updated automatically. For example flash - you have to remove it, and then install it again. Moreover, I couldn't remove libx264-116 because of openshot and kino, although they don't use it anymore. Strange

I'm noticing something very odd since upgrading to UP5. I can shutdown as normal but even half a minute I see the black screen that I usually associate with my laptop being shutdown I notice that status icons for my wifi and power on lights are still on (my Bluetooth icon was also on until I disabled Bluetooth in my BIOS) and I continue to see a lot of hard disk activity. I'm also noticing that my battery isn't charging, and the low battery light constantly flashes. I'm running Schoelje's LMDE KDE respin, and this is what inxi -F returns: